Zen Language in our Time: the case of Pojo Chinul`s
... Buddhism takes pains to teach has less to do with the function of language as such than one's inability to read the identity of difference between form and emptiness. By claiming that linguistic expression is not a ``re-presentation'' of experience, and experience is not an ``extra'' step beyond th ...
... Buddhism takes pains to teach has less to do with the function of language as such than one's inability to read the identity of difference between form and emptiness. By claiming that linguistic expression is not a ``re-presentation'' of experience, and experience is not an ``extra'' step beyond th ...
Changing Buddhist Practice in Burma
... particularly oneself, through the Buddhist moral, cosmological, and conceptual framework. The aim of the meditator is to attain the spiritual stage of non-self involving understanding the changing and impermanent nature of things, including oneself.16 ...
... particularly oneself, through the Buddhist moral, cosmological, and conceptual framework. The aim of the meditator is to attain the spiritual stage of non-self involving understanding the changing and impermanent nature of things, including oneself.16 ...
Western Buddhist Motivations for Vegetarianism, 9(3): 385-411. Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion,
... In this section I review the primary reasons usually cited as foundational to Buddhist vegetarianism. Different themes derive from the major historical developments in Buddhism-the Theravada traditions of southeast Asia, the Mahayana schools of northern China, Japan, and Korea, and the Yajrayana lin ...
... In this section I review the primary reasons usually cited as foundational to Buddhist vegetarianism. Different themes derive from the major historical developments in Buddhism-the Theravada traditions of southeast Asia, the Mahayana schools of northern China, Japan, and Korea, and the Yajrayana lin ...
Man Religion Society Governance in Buddhism
... More recent writings of mine, spreading over a period of about thirty years, more or less, which are collected in this volume, may be called essays in a sense. They are the product of a sheme of research in Buddhist studies contemplated by me over a period of nearly two decades. They reflect the way ...
... More recent writings of mine, spreading over a period of about thirty years, more or less, which are collected in this volume, may be called essays in a sense. They are the product of a sheme of research in Buddhist studies contemplated by me over a period of nearly two decades. They reflect the way ...
Exhibition Catalogue - Vassar College WordPress
... Above all other considerations, the exhibition focuses on how Avalokiteshvara’s diverse artistic manifestations exemplify limitless compassion. Of course, compassion is a widely shared religious and humanist value, expressed in Neo-Confucian benevolence and Christian brotherly love, in the life work ...
... Above all other considerations, the exhibition focuses on how Avalokiteshvara’s diverse artistic manifestations exemplify limitless compassion. Of course, compassion is a widely shared religious and humanist value, expressed in Neo-Confucian benevolence and Christian brotherly love, in the life work ...
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... Above all other considerations, the exhibition focuses on how Avalokiteshvara’s diverse artistic manifestations exemplify limitless compassion. Of course, compassion is a widely shared religious and humanist value, expressed in Neo-Confucian benevolence and Christian brotherly love, in the life work ...
... Above all other considerations, the exhibition focuses on how Avalokiteshvara’s diverse artistic manifestations exemplify limitless compassion. Of course, compassion is a widely shared religious and humanist value, expressed in Neo-Confucian benevolence and Christian brotherly love, in the life work ...
Economic and Political Weekly June 9, 2007 2177
... finally, I will show how Kanpur’s dalits followed a trajectory from Bhakti to Buddhism, or more specifically, from the teachings of Sant Ravidas to Navayana Buddhism. Bhakti is not only a devotional mode of veneration, but a broad religious movement which began in northern India in the 14th century. ...
... finally, I will show how Kanpur’s dalits followed a trajectory from Bhakti to Buddhism, or more specifically, from the teachings of Sant Ravidas to Navayana Buddhism. Bhakti is not only a devotional mode of veneration, but a broad religious movement which began in northern India in the 14th century. ...
Buddhism and the race question - UNESDOC
... between castes in Indian society, rather than on the relations between differentethnic groups. Very many works have been devoted to this problem, which is still as topical as ever; and Lhe task of bringing out the main trends and selecting the most significantpassages from the whole of this vasl lit ...
... between castes in Indian society, rather than on the relations between differentethnic groups. Very many works have been devoted to this problem, which is still as topical as ever; and Lhe task of bringing out the main trends and selecting the most significantpassages from the whole of this vasl lit ...
To Understand Buddha`s Teaching
... Second, is "enlightenment of self and others", a state in which one helps others to reach enlightenment after achieving his or her own. Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism have attained this level. Third is "Perfect Complete Enlightenment", a state in which one reaches perfection in both enlightenment ...
... Second, is "enlightenment of self and others", a state in which one helps others to reach enlightenment after achieving his or her own. Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism have attained this level. Third is "Perfect Complete Enlightenment", a state in which one reaches perfection in both enlightenment ...
The Tree of Enlightenment
... Asia and found that many people there view Buddhism as oldfashioned, irrational, and bound up with outdated superstitions. is is one of two prevalent attitudes that obstruct the appreciation of Buddhism in such traditionally Buddhist communities. e other popular misconception that afflicts Buddhis ...
... Asia and found that many people there view Buddhism as oldfashioned, irrational, and bound up with outdated superstitions. is is one of two prevalent attitudes that obstruct the appreciation of Buddhism in such traditionally Buddhist communities. e other popular misconception that afflicts Buddhis ...
Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... conduct, including the Buddhist precepts and Mahayana perfections (pāramitā), is merely a device to be tossed aside after serving its purpose. Given that partaking in a different kind of ethics does not necessarily mean having no ethics at all, James correctly shows that such an argument profoundly ...
... conduct, including the Buddhist precepts and Mahayana perfections (pāramitā), is merely a device to be tossed aside after serving its purpose. Given that partaking in a different kind of ethics does not necessarily mean having no ethics at all, James correctly shows that such an argument profoundly ...
The Characteristics of Tibetan-Language Tripitaka and their Values
... Thonmi Sambhota to Nammkhrskyong in the first development period of Tibetan Buddhism (the two hundred years from the reign of Songtsän Gampo to the persecution of Buddhists at the hands of Langdarma). In the 718 years from the second development period of Tibetan Buddhism to Mongol Dzungar’s dominan ...
... Thonmi Sambhota to Nammkhrskyong in the first development period of Tibetan Buddhism (the two hundred years from the reign of Songtsän Gampo to the persecution of Buddhists at the hands of Langdarma). In the 718 years from the second development period of Tibetan Buddhism to Mongol Dzungar’s dominan ...
mudratantra - Lotusspace
... • Traditional Korean Medicine (developing into KHT); [Buddhism was brought from China to Korea and Japan by the monk Ekwan] Mystic [esoteric; alchemical; hidden: secret teachings (ie.Jap.: mikkyo) through initiation only] medicine, or the spiritual practice behind religion, regards philosophy as the ...
... • Traditional Korean Medicine (developing into KHT); [Buddhism was brought from China to Korea and Japan by the monk Ekwan] Mystic [esoteric; alchemical; hidden: secret teachings (ie.Jap.: mikkyo) through initiation only] medicine, or the spiritual practice behind religion, regards philosophy as the ...
Eating Practices and Attitudes among American Buddhists: An
... provided its followers with the ability to perceive the liberation of all sentient beings. This liberation is classically understood as freedom from karma and so, the cessation of all suffering. Ethics that have been the basis for this spiritual liberation have begun to interest scholars of sociolog ...
... provided its followers with the ability to perceive the liberation of all sentient beings. This liberation is classically understood as freedom from karma and so, the cessation of all suffering. Ethics that have been the basis for this spiritual liberation have begun to interest scholars of sociolog ...
Dharma Essays
... Zen or other tradition. It is essentially the experience of nonduality. Perhaps we may distinguish the views as logical in contrast to mystical. I reflected in myself that while many people may not easily experience nonduality, they can understand the logical basis of Emptiness and through re ...
... Zen or other tradition. It is essentially the experience of nonduality. Perhaps we may distinguish the views as logical in contrast to mystical. I reflected in myself that while many people may not easily experience nonduality, they can understand the logical basis of Emptiness and through re ...
File - INTERNATIONAL CH`AN BUDDHISM INSTITUTE
... other precepts. Not killing, not stealing, and not engaging in sexual misconduct are great and important vows, whilst not lying regulates speech. Drinking alcohol leads to uncontrolled speech, and the possibility of breaking all the precepts because good judgement has been lost. Explanation of the F ...
... other precepts. Not killing, not stealing, and not engaging in sexual misconduct are great and important vows, whilst not lying regulates speech. Drinking alcohol leads to uncontrolled speech, and the possibility of breaking all the precepts because good judgement has been lost. Explanation of the F ...
permissions - poetry of China
... an ineffable sense of total freedom and ease, of peace and equanimity. Such repose is not a "learned" behavior. It appears to be the natural result of truly shedding concern with one's self. It seemed to arise from those ancients' realization of the self's "empty" nature, that is, that the self is n ...
... an ineffable sense of total freedom and ease, of peace and equanimity. Such repose is not a "learned" behavior. It appears to be the natural result of truly shedding concern with one's self. It seemed to arise from those ancients' realization of the self's "empty" nature, that is, that the self is n ...
SRI LANKA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST
... course to be taken in relation to her following of 500 Sàkyan women, who had come together with her in quest of higher ordination. In reply to this question, the Buddha promulgated Cv X.2, according to which bhikkhus on their own should give the higher ordination to female candidates. Considering th ...
... course to be taken in relation to her following of 500 Sàkyan women, who had come together with her in quest of higher ordination. In reply to this question, the Buddha promulgated Cv X.2, according to which bhikkhus on their own should give the higher ordination to female candidates. Considering th ...
